OpenSearch/docs/reference/mapping/fields/uid-field.asciidoc
Ryan Ernst e29492ce94 Docs: Cleanup meta field docs
Meta fields were locked down to not allow exotic options to the
underlying field types in #8143. This change fixes the docs
to no longer refer to the old settings.

closes #10879
2015-05-07 11:26:49 -07:00

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[[mapping-uid-field]]
=== `_uid`
Each document indexed is associated with an id and a type, the internal
`_uid` field is the unique identifier of a document within an index and
is composed of the type and the id (meaning that different types can
have the same id and still maintain uniqueness).
The `_uid` field is for type based filtering, as well as for
lookups of `_id` and `_type`.